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Cloud Operations Management Lifecycle
- When thinking about cloud operations management lifecycle, the key phases that come to mind are:
- Infrastructure provisioning
- Configuration management
- Monitoring and performance
- Governance and compliance
- Resource optimization
The Generative AI Stack on AWS
- For building and training custom models, AWS provides hardware, software, and platform services.
- Amazon Bedrock provides access to leading foundation models through a single API, allowing customization for different use cases and automation of workflows.
- Amazon Lex (for business users) and Amazon Lex Developer (for developers) provide pre-built AI assistant capabilities.
Infrastructure Provisioning with Generative AI
- Infrastructure as code (IaC) refers to the practice of managing infrastructure through code, which can be declarative or procedural.
- The presenters created a common infrastructure (provider and requestor instances) to test the use of generative AI tools, starting with a new AWS account.
- They used the AWS Tools for PowerShell as their primary CLI, keeping the toolbox light and focused on native AWS services.
Demonstration 1: Generating an EC2 Instance Script with Amazon Lex
- The presenters used Amazon Lex Developer in Visual Studio Code to generate a PowerShell script that creates a Windows EC2 instance in each available zone.
- The generated script includes intuit ive variable names, comments, and error handling best practices.
Demonstration 2: Optimizing a CloudFormation Template with Amazon Lex
- The presenters used the inline code suggestion feature of Amazon Lex Developer to optimize a CloudFormation template that deploys an EC2 instance.
- Suggestions included adding a description, using a default AMI ID, and leveraging the AWS Systems Manager Parameter Store for the AMI ID.
Configuration Management with Generative AI
- For Microsoft workloads, key configuration management tasks include credential management, server hardening, agent/role/feature installation, and patching.
- AWS Systems Manager provides capabilities like Run Command, Session Manager, and State Manager to manage configurations at scale.
- The presenters demonstrated using Amazon Lex Developer to create an AWS Systems Manager document that disables TLS protocols lower than 1.2 on Windows instances.
Demonstration 3: Transforming PowerShell to an SSM Document
- The presenters used Amazon Lex Developer to transform a PowerShell script into an AWS Systems Manager run command document.
- The generated document required modifications to the parameter section, body code, and escape characters/delimiters to make it compatible with the SSM document format.
Demonstration 4: Applying the Principle of Least Privilege
- The presenters had a PowerShell script that needed to update the security group of a provider instance based on the public IP changes of requestor instances.
- They used Amazon Lex Developer to generate the necessary IAM permissions for the instance profile that the script required, ensuring the principle of least privilege.
Monitoring and Performance with Generative AI
- Robust monitoring is crucial to detect, diagnose, and resolve issues in distributed systems.
- Amazon CloudWatch provides monitoring services for real-time visibility of applications and resources.
- The presenters demonstrated using Amazon Lex Developer and Amazon QuickSight to visualize Windows event logs and extract insights, such as unique IP addresses, traffic by city/region, and username usage.
Demonstration 5: Automated Windows Event Log Analysis
- The presenters used a Lambda function to ingest Windows event logs from CloudWatch Logs, process the data, and make it available in Amazon QuickSight.
- They then used Amazon Lex Developer to generate a daily email summary, categorizing and prioritizing the event log errors, providing root cause analysis, and suggesting resolution steps.
Governance and Compliance with Generative AI
- Maintaining an accurate inventory of the environment is crucial for governance and compliance.
- AWS Systems Manager Inventory can capture inventory data for both on-premises and cloud resources, which can be queried using tools like Amazon Athena and visualized with Amazon QuickSight.
- AWS Config provides pre-built and custom rules to detect configuration drift and automatically remediate non-compliant resources using AWS Systems Manager Automation.
Resource Optimization with Generative AI
- Optimizing resources for cost, performance, fault tolerance, security, and licensing is essential.
- AWS Cost Explorer, AWS Trusted Advisor, and AWS License Manager provide optimization suggestions.
- The presenters showcased AWS Compute Optimizer, which can suggest downgrades/upgrades for EC2 instances and optimize SQL Server licensing based on usage patterns.